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This resource will help prepare your students to correctly write a TDA for standardized testing. If you assign a TDA prompt for students to do on their own and then sigh with frustration when they write about something foreign to the prompt or simply write a summary, then this m

T-D-A. My learning support students would cringe when I said those three letters during ELA. Honestly, I would too! Having them read, and then re-read, and then make connections, and then state their claim, and then support their claim, and then turn all of that into a written response. Yikes! I

A guided writing prompt, aimed to guide students in answering TDA questions.
Prompt - Think about someone you love. Analyze the impact they've made in your life. Use evidence to explain your response.
Guidance includes - brainstorming, planning using RACE writing strategy, and writer's checklist fro

Here is an easy way to teach your students how to write a text dependent analysis essay! This can be used as a whole group, small group, or individual activity.
Students begin by reading an excerpt from a classic children’s book (Huckleberry Finn). Then they are given a text dependent analysis writ

Here is an easy way to teach your students how to write a text dependent analysis essay! This can be used as a whole group, small group, or individual activity.
Students begin by reading an excerpt from a classic children’s book (Black Beauty). Then they read a text dependent analysis writing promp

Here is an easy way to teach your students how to write a text dependent analysis essay! This can be used as a whole group, small group, or individual activity.
Students begin by reading an informational passage on barn owls.
Then they read a text dependent analysis writing prompt. (The prompt a

I created two TDA prompts to go along with the short story "Charlie" by Shirley Jackson. I plan on having my students read "Charlie" on their own and then respond to one of the two prompts I created. The TDA prompts made mimic the TDA prompts commonly seen on state tests.Great for PSSAs, SC Ready,

This ELA test prep and text dependent analysis growing bundle contains so much! There are currently four practice packets included. One packet contains the short story "Snow-Sister," one packet features the poem "Father William," another packet features a nonfiction passage titled "The Last Battl

Differentiated Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) Practice!This product includes:- 3 fiction passages on 2 different levels!***Perfect to meet the needs of all of your students***- Each passage also includes 5 multiple-choice test prep questions and a TDA prompt.- RACES outline provided to help students

Differentiated Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) Practice!This product includes:- 3 biography passages on 2 different levels!***Perfect to meet the needs of all of your students***- Each passage also includes 5 multiple-choice test prep questions and a TDA prompt.- RACES outline provided to help student

Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) Practice!This product includes:- 3 poetry passages.- Each passage includes 5 multiple-choice test prep questions and a TDA prompt.- RACES outline provided to help students craft their essay.- Answer Key provided for all of the multiple choice questions.Looking for more

This ELA test prep and text dependent analysis packet contains so much! The short story "Snow-Sister" is included as a printable and a Google Doc. Twenty multiple choice questions are included as a printable and as a Google Form. A text dependent analysis prompt for this story is included too as a p

This ELA test prep and text dependent analysis packet contains so much! The nonfiction passage "The Last Battle of Blackbeard" is included as a printable and a Google Doc. Fifteen multiple choice questions are included as a printable and as a Google Form. A text dependent analysis prompt for this pa

This ELA test prep and text dependent analysis packet contains so much! The nonfiction passage "Why Cry?" is included as a printable and a Google Doc. Ten multiple choice questions are included as a printable and as a Google Form. Two text dependent analysis prompts for this passage are included too

New to TDAs? This product is for you! This BUNDLE includes everything you need to begin teaching TDAs to your students. The products in this bundle are designed to scaffold the learning and instruction to students.Writing TDAs requires strong inference skills. Students need to be able to find eviden

This is a great activity to review types of writing. The students are detectives and are trying to find their matching essay prompt. Students will receive a prompt, identify the type of writing: narrative, persuasive/opinion, informative, or text dependent analysis essay. Once they identify the type

New to TDAs? This is for you!5 days of lesson plans, tips and tricks for how to introduce TDA writing to your studentsNon-fiction passage about famous inventor, Garrett A Morgan5 multiple choice practice test questionsTDA promptRACES PosterThis has everything you need to get started!Answers for mult

This bundle includes Literary Analysis,Text-Dependent Analysis, and Pre-Reading Creative Writing materials for the short story “Charles” by Shirley Jackson. The bundle includes 70 pages and is priced to save you 20% off buying each of these three products at their individual prices. Literary analysi

Text Dependent Analysis and responding to TDA prompts is not easy to teach. This product serves as an introduction to analysis, which will not only lead to success on text dependent analysis essays but also success in life!The product includes an introductory slide show, provided as both a PowerPo